Do cars, airplanes, rockets and other such vehicles fascinate you? If you have answered in the affirmative, then you should surely visit this museum managed by HTT or Heritage Transportation Trust established in 2011.Heritage Transport museum will educate you on the history and evolution of transport in India.
There is a well equipped library, a souvenir shop, seminar rooms and cafeteria. The thrilling part is visitor participation and interactive sessions! This museum will surely inspire tourists, students, architects and designers, auto manufacturing units, collectors of vintage cars and research scholars.
Stellar Children's Museum
The best form of prayer is to make a little child happy... and you won't have to go any further! Visit Stellar Children's museum to hear giggling children with smiling faces!
Address: Inside Stellar Gymkhana Club, R-1, Vashishth Rd, Knowledge Park II, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh 201310
Phone: 0120 464 7501
Website: https://www.stellarchildrensmuseum.com/
E-mail : info@stellarmuseum.com
Closed on Mondays
Open : Tuesday - Friday
Hours: 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM
Saturday & Sunday
Hours: 11:00 AM to 7:00 PM
Admission Stellar Gymkhana Members
Child :Rs. 250
Adult :Rs. 100
General Visitors
Child :Rs. 500
Adult :Rs. 200
Young minds are curious about the environment they live in and their imagination finds wings here! Interactive sessions, problem solving and motor skills development is done in children using the play-way method of learning. There is fun and frolic all around, children love each others company while exploring and creating.
The galleries in the museum include 'Invent it', 'Build it', 'Discover it', 'Explore it', 'Live it', 'Create it' and 'Splash it' galleries where there is constant supervision by trained teachers. There are theatre workshops, story-telling and music sessions too for the benefit of children. Fascinating games which children love to play are Ball track, Bernoulli table, Invent a plane, Drawing board and 'Opposites attract'.
How to reach Stellar Children's Museum
This museum is located on Ambience Island, near Gurugram Toll Booth. You can drive down to this museum or hire an auto rickshaw or bus.
Urusvati Museum of Folklore
This two-storeyed building houses wall hangings, handicrafts, pottery, dioramas, paintings and many historic artifacts. From the painting of Bahadur Shah Zafar's wife to the wonderfully embroidered 'phulkari dupatta' of Punjab, you can find them all here.
Address: Shikohpur Rd, Sector 78, Gurugram, Haryana 122004
Phone: 098106 05910
Website: https://urusvatiart.com/
Email: urusvatiart@gmail.com
How to reach Urusvati Museum of Folklore
IFFCO Chowk metro station on the yellow line is the nearest metro station to this museum. The best way to visit this museum is either to drive down in your car or hire an auto rickshaw for a day for a convenient journey to this museum. Getting an auto from the museum can be a cumbersome exercise as the museum is located in a remote area with not-so-smooth roads.
Sanskriti Museums
These are actually a trio of three museums, namely, Museum of ‘Everyday Art’, Museum of Indian Terracotta (tribal art) and Textile Museum. These museums are situated within Anandgram premises which is spread over 8 acres and about 10 kms. from the capital city of Delhi.
Address: Anandagram, Mehrauli-Gurgaon Rd, Aya Nagar, New Delhi, Delhi 110047
Phone: 011 2696 3226
Founded: 1990
Email: kendra@sanskritifoundation.org / info@sanskritifoundation.org
Sanskriti museums were founded by Shri O.P.Jain in collaboration with an NGO (Non-Profit Organization) named Sanskriti Foundation (also known as 'Sanskriti Prathisthan'). Scholars and artists look forward to educational programmes organized here such as workshops and artist-in-residence programmes. The museum has a well equipped library, residential studio, amphitheater and an art gallery.
'Sanskriti awards' instituted by Sanskriti Kendra encourages young upcoming talents in the fields of dance, music, art, social and cultural field, literature and theatre. 'Sanskriti Yatra' workshops brings about cultural awareness in children. There are short-term residential programmes conducted here in partnership with UNESCO, Asia Link and Fulbright Fellowship Programme.
Museum of ‘Everyday Art’ contains Warli painting and other everyday household things such as toys, spoons, idols and cups which have been catapulted into works of art by talented artists. Museum of Indian Terracotta consists of around 1,500 objects pertaining to terracotta art. Sculptures and figurines from tribal areas have also been displayed here. Textile Museum heralds our textile heritage in an effective way.
Other museums in Delhi include Indian War Memorial Museum, Indira Gandhi Memorial Museum, National Museum of Natural History, National Museum, Mumtaz Mahal Museum, Swatantrata Senani Museum, Gandhi Smriti Museum, Swatantrata Sangram Sanghralaya (Museum), National Children Museum, National Philatelic (Stamps Collection) Museum, Sultanpur National Park Education and Interpretation Center and National Rail Museum.
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